Don’t let the title throw you. It will make sense after you read the book. This is a meticulously documented history of American pop music in the 20th century, beginng with the Ragtime era and moving up to the Hiphop era. And along the way, he does serious damage to a lot of the mythology that we’ve taken as fact up until now, in verhy much the same way he got through to the real Robert Johnson in his previous book, “Escaping the Delta; Robert Johnson and the Invention or the Blues” And he backs it all up using sales figures rather than critics’ remembrances. He also ads value to the job because of the time he spent as a touring musician. This is a fun, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable read, and you’ll find out that the Beatles actually did destroy Rock’n'Roll